Anxiety-Related Disorders

In the DSM-5, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRD) and Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders were separated into their own distinct categories, whereas in the previous iteration, the DSM-4, these conditions were included under anxiety disorders.

Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders

While anxiety remains a key feature in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (hence why it was included in the video on previous page), obsessive-compulsive and related disorders were clustered separately due to symptom similarity and a high degree of comorbidity between disorders within this category (Sharma et al., 2021).

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders include:

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

While anxiety is also a feature of Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders, this category conceptualizes the disorders within it as stress-response syndromes in reaction to specific triggering events (Virginia Commission on Youth, 2017).

Trauma and Stressor-Related disorders include:

References

Sharma, E., Sharma, L. P., Balachander, S., Lin, B., Manohar, H., … Stewart, S. E. (2021). Comorbidities in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12.

Virginia Commission on Youth (2017). Collection of evidence-based practices for children and adolescents with mental health treatment needs [PDF]. Government of Virginia.